Perry's Blog

We've done it!! The mortgage (apart from 50 cents) is a fait accompli :D more »

It's about a year since we planted our Pikeabelle apple more »

We've had our Heat Pump for about a year now so it's time to look at what the electricity usage and costs have done... more »

When Sandi was in New Zealand I had a crazy idea for our Toilet wall... Our Toilet is pretty horrid: dark, airless and small. It also had an extractor fan that had not worked for a very long time, and was filled with old spider webs. We'd removed the… more »

Our newly planted Pinkabelle Apple Originally uploaded by Perry Mowbray You may remember when Mum visited for her birthday that she wanted to buy us a tree: we eventually decided on a dwarf apple called Pinkabelle. Last weekend we prepared a n… more »

I've been keeping our budget data in Excel for some years now, and it's always interesting to look back and see how the budget guessing went. This yeas has seen quite a number of global influences on our prices (or so they'd have us believe). Sandi has b… more »

We've had the Heat Pump installed that I mentioned in this post. Joe the plumber was very good: organised the electrician and did all the paperwork for the rebates. I called our electricity supplier and asked them to change us to Off Peak 2 from Of… more »

I forgot to mention yesterday about our hot water change... Because our current water heater is 11 years old, and the various Governments are still offering plenty of rebates (currently around $3,600, but the RECs go up and down in value), we've decid… more »

Two of the most serious problems in our garden are Bower Birds, who are voracious eaters, and Common Garden Snails, that can destroy a plant overnight. We've even found high-rise snails at the top of our tamarillos! And there are just so many of them :>… more »

I'm not sure what's really going on, but as can be seen from the last couple of frames of the Time Lapse the Tamarillos have taken a beating recently. Firstly, I'm wondering if they've had a little too much rain. It has been a very wet period, and we… more »